Why Google Finds Your Pages but Never Crawls Them

[IvanRF]

This is usually not a content problem.

The reason is the content itself. Weak content, content that is completely unoriginal, template content, low-quality AI-generated content. All of this is the main reason - I would even say the overwhelmingly dominant reason - why pages stop being indexed and appear in Google Search Console with the status Discovered, currently not indexed.

I have seen this across dozens of websites, and I can state it with complete confidence. Google simply does not want to waste its resources indexing pages that look like trash from the outset. In other words, they do not deserve to be indexed, because that content brings no value to readers, the community, or anyone else.

 

[KoD-]

The reason is the content itself. Weak content, content that is completely unoriginal, template content, low-quality AI-generated content. All of this is the main reason - I would even say the overwhelmingly dominant reason - why pages stop being indexed and appear in Google Search Console with the status Discovered, currently not indexed.

I have seen this across dozens of websites, and I can state it with complete confidence. Google simply does not want to waste its resources indexing pages that look like trash from the outset. In other words, they do not deserve to be indexed, because that content brings no value to readers, the community, or anyone else.

You’re right content quality is a major factor, especially for long term indexing and retention. But in practice, I’ve seen well written pages still sit in “Discovered” due to weak crawl signals.

In most cases, it’s a combination: content quality earns eligibility, while internal links, authority, and crawl priority drive actual indexing.

 

[IvanRF]

But in practice, I’ve seen well written pages still sit in “Discovered” due to weak crawl signals.

I can’t agree with you on this. What you’re describing happens for two reasons:

The first is that pages that seem well written often aren’t actually so. I’ve seen large, "high-quality" articles that were just another rewrite of everything already available online. In other words, for Google it’s not original, it’s dull, and often outdated content. It doesn’t add anything new to the internet. That’s why such pages are often deindexed or not indexed at all as new pages.

The second reason is that sometimes Google assigns this status even to pages it hasn’t actually checked on the site, if it has previously found a large number of low-quality pages that it also refused to index. In other words, it happens in advance. It won’t check every page. It will review only some of them and then apply the verdict to the rest simply to save resources. The same applies to the status “Discovered - currently not indexed”.